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Jeanie Orr
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From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:33 AM
To: Michelle McConnell
Cc: AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: Comments on the Shoreline Management Plan
From: Roger Delmar [mailto:roger.delmar@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:23 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Comments on the Shoreline Management Plan
Dear Commissioners,
We appreciate the Planning Commission's work to review the SMP based on citizen comments. I
support the Planning Commission's efforts to balance property rights with environmental concerns, such
as the revision to make it easy for homes to be rebuilt after a fire.
However, in the process of seeking to protect the property rights of a small minority, the Planning
Commission has eliminated important safeguards that would protect shoreline habitat and water quality
on 60 miles of our county's shoreline. Please don't roll back the environmental safeguards proposed in
the citizen committee's draft. Our shorelines are where we live and work, and we don't want them turned
into urban wastelands. The language allowing unregulated aquaculture on rural beaches needs to be
removed. Replace it with the previous language of compromise on near shore and intertidal
aquaculture, including the ban on all net pens. The draft should not include unregulated aquaculture nor
should it allow fish-farming pens along Jefferson County beaches.
Also, please reinstate the science-based ISO-foot buffers for all of Jefferson County shorelines. These
buffers are sized to reduce erosion and flooding of our homes, prevent chemicals from poisoning
shellfish beds, keep our beaches clean enough to swim in, and keep our salmon streams cool.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment!
Roger and Diane Delmar
293 Boardwalk Ave.
Port Townsend
6/15/2009